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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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SnSt Ht 50III/4 — firum ‘of men’

Yggs drósar rýfr eisa
ǫld móðsefa tjǫld;
glóð støkkr í hof Hlakkar
hugtúns firum brún.
Geðveggjar svífr glugga
glæs dynbrími hræs;
hvattr es hyrr at slétta
hjaldrs gnapturna aldrs.

Eisa drósar Yggs rýfr tjǫld móðsefa ǫld; brún glóð Hlakkar støkkr í hof hugtúns firum. Svífr dynbrími hræs glugga glæs geðveggjar; hyrr hjaldrs es hvattr at slétta gnapturna aldrs.

The fire of Yggr’s <= Óðinn’s> woman [VALKYRIE > SWORD] rips the tents of the mind [CHESTS] of people; the burnished ember of Hlǫkk <valkyrie> [SWORD] leaps into the temples of the mind-meadow [BREAST > HEADS] of men. The crashing flame of carrion [SWORD] flashes through the windows of the clear mind-wall [BREAST > WOUNDS]; the fire of battle [SWORD] is whetted to level jutting towers of life [HEADS].

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